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David Graham Cooper

Born

Cape Town, South Africa

Died

July 29, 1986

Genre

Anti Psychiatry, Psychiatry

Influences

R.D. Laing ...more

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David Graham Cooper (born 1931 in Cape Town, South Africa – died 29 July 1986 in Paris, France) was a South African-born psychiatrist and theorist who was prominent in the anti-psychiatry movement.

Cooper graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1955. R.D. Laing claimed that Cooper underwent Soviet training to prepare him as an Anti Apartheid communist revolutionary, but after completing his course he never returned to South Africa out of fear that B.O.S.S. would eliminate him. He moved to London, where he worked at several hospitals. From 1961 to 1965 he ran an experimental unit for young people with schizophrenia called Villa 21, which he saw as a revolutionary 'anti-hospital' and a prototype for the later Kingsley Hall Community. In ...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 261 ratings · 37 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mai ti ho promesso un giardino di rose by Hannah Green, Joanne Greenberg (Goodreads Author), David Graham Cooper (Afterword) 3.90 avg rating — 35,341 ratings — published 1964 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death of the Family 3.51 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1971 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry 3.64 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1967 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dialectics of Liberation 3.78 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1968 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Language of Madness 3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grammar of Living 3.63 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1974 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reason & Violence by R.D. Laing, David Graham Cooper 3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1964 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Der Eingekreiste Wahnsinn by David Graham Cooper, Michel Foucault, Marquis de Sade really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1979 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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